Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Core i7-13650HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points

10310 points

102% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

12063 points

131% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

9775 points

92% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

9667 points

88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

235.32 points

108% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

Identical

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.9 GHz

44% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

80th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-4800

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Core i7-13650HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13650HX beats the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13650HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Both the Xeon E5-2640 v3 and Core i7-13650HX have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-13650HX has a significantly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.